Technologies are generally described for providing an email assistant for sorting through emails received at an email application. The email assistant may prioritize emails and group high and low priority emails separately to enable a user to quickly view and manage an email inbox. The email assistant may also provide suggestions on how to sort and manage emails in the inbox of the email application. The email assistant may observe a user's pattern of interactions with types of emails, and prioritize emails and suggest actions based on the user's interactions. The email assistant may be configured to automatically sort emails and provide management suggestions based on a detected scenario such as a user's return after a period of time away, a large influx of emails, and presence detection.
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4. The method of claim 1, wherein the two or more groups include a first group of the emails that are associated with a first priority and a second group of email that are associated with a second priority, and wherein the first priority is greater than the second priority.
14. The computing device of claim 10, wherein the email application is further configured to enable the user interactions with the email application interface through one or more of: a touch input, a keyboard input, a mouse input, a pen input, a voice command, and an eye-tracking input.
15. The computing device of claim 10, wherein the email application is one of a hosted service accessed through a browser executed on the computing device and a locally installed application executed on the computing device.
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